THE Creator of Life and The Universe singling out an individual male from The Middle East as "The Apple of HIS Eye",
or
Arab ego?
Hows about we stop squabbling over the past and which ancient Arab story is the true and correct pathway to The God of Abraham as described in The Torah, The New Testament and The Qur'an, instead celebrate The God of (insert your name here), and start looking forward to our species working together to explore the stars?
Just a thought....
Was it Isaac or Ishmael that An spared at the top of the mountain that day?
I have said it many times it matter not and we should learn from the story that human sacrifice is not needed and Abraham was willing to kill a kid in the name of An...
The books are stories to teach society right from wrong and yet too many want it to be about how their religion should be the only one that govern our lives...
Oh, inserted the God An ( Anu ) because at the time of Abraham that was the name of the main God of that region of the World...
The problem with saying what the books teach, is that the books had writers - these are the morals man's discovered and there's no reasonable evidence to prove the contrary. Superstition was evolved into us based on our sentient brains not being advanced enough yet to explain things such as thunder, and the sun. Our brains are knowledge seeking, and we sometimes irrationally fill the gaps. Now that we're growing at a more rapid pace than ever, intellectually and technologically, this is being rendered out.
An open minded person never knows all the answers to the Universe...
It is true the Books were written by man and is based on myth that many believe it is true because from the myth there was someone that once named Abraham that once attempted to sacrifice his son and had a change of heart...
Was it a God that changed it or the voice in his head that told him what he was doing was wrong?
For you it was the voice and religious people it was God...
For me I prefer to look at the books as bards tales and my favorite one is Taoism because it teaches how to live with life and not against human nature...